Geography Archives: Asia

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO’s) 2025 summit in Tianjin produced a series of outcomes that, although modest in appearance, are strategically significant. The most prominent developments were the agreement in principle to establish an SCO Development Bank, seeded with approximately ¥2 billion in grants and a further ¥10–14 billion in concessional loans from China.

China is establishing a world leadership role via green energy as the consummate bargaining tool.

IADL extends its condolences to the people of Nepal on the death of young protestors in the clashes that happened during the Gen Z protest and wishes a speedy recovery to all injured people.

India found itself in an uncomfortable situation like a cat on a hot roof at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation event in Tianjin, China, with the Western media hyping up its unlikely role in a troika with Russia and China to chariot the world order toward a brave new era of multipolarity.

How do China’s government, political system, and socialist market economy work? How does it see democracy? Prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei explains in this sit-down interview with Ben Norton.

Not being characterised by involuntary unemployment was a great achievement of old socialism. It was an achievement unprecedented in modern history and it still remains unsurpassed to this day.

The recent surge in public anger isn’t a sudden phenomenon, but rather the culmination of 60 years of flawed economic policies and mismanagement.

“Because the destruction of this nation is because of them, not the ordinary Indonesian people”, they said. “Long live the people, long live women, long live workers!”, they added.

Appeal from an Indonesian activist.

1. The Revival of the Big Stick and the Monroe Doctrine Since Donald Trump’s reelection as president of the United States, the world has watched in shock as US foreign policy has grown increasingly unilateral and aggressive, raising deep concerns about the future of international politics. These concerns stem not only from the record of […]

The vision of a capitalism that is “stabilised” through a rectification of its “excesses”, and hence pre-empts any social challenge to its existence, has always endured in one form or another among economists.

This week, India and China have taken a great leap of faith in their mutual efforts to incrementally advance the normalization process in their bilateral relationship.

Across continents, the occupation state’s energy lifelines are sustained by a network of enabling powers, feeding its war machine across West Asia.

The report is seen as a direct rebuttal to longstanding U.S. military claims and is intended to provide a professional, legal framework defending the maritime rights of coastal states.

With the beginning of the reform and opening-up policy, the People’s Republic of China entered a new historical period in its development. Starting in 1978, the country began to prioritize a development model with characteristics quite distinct from those prevailing during the previous period (1949–78). From then on, China began to emphasize the growth of […]

While China brings electricity, roads, and rail to the Global South, the imperial left brings its measuring tape—only to weep over wage gaps. But whose gap are they really mourning? And in whose name?

Calling this concession a Diwali “gift” of course betrays a repugnant feudal mindset.

BRICS+ is contradictory, uneven, and fragile—but in its openings, the Global South carves space for sovereignty and struggle Multipolarity Emerges from Crisis, Not Consensus The story they sell is that “order” was built by reasoned men in sensible suits. The story we live is different. Multipolarity did not grow out of seminars or summits; it […]

There are two reasons for the U.S. tariffs imposed on India: first, India’s refusal to open its agricultural market to U.S. imports; second, India’s refusal to stop purchasing oil from Russia.

The state is far from perfect. But it offers a glimpse of what the world could look like when human well-being is prioritised in everyday life.